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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Contest for Teen Novel Publication
Wyvern Publications, my publisher for The Voices of Ire, is holding a contest for a publishing contract. There is an entry fee, but I think it may be worth it if you have a teen novel you couldn't get an agent for just sitting around. The due date's not until December, so there's even enough time to write a completely new teen novel by then, especially if you do one for NaNoWriMo in November.
This is taken right off their website:
"Please send in the first chapter of your completed novel, a one page complete synopsis, and payment with the entry form (see downloads at the bottom of this page). We're looking for unique teen fiction in any genre. We want something fresh, engaging and character driven. No extreme violence, sex or profanity please.
Closing date is 12 December 2010 and the winner is announced 5 May 2011. The most promising entry will win a full novel and synopsis critique worth £350 and a publishing contract.
Post entries to: Wyvern Publications, 29 Nash Close, Lawford, Essex, CO11 2LE. E-mail submissions for non UK residents only please..."
Anyone going to enter? If so, I'll help you out and read your chapter before you send it in!
24 comments:
- Alexandra Shostak said...
oooh. I'm in the midst of working on a YA project right now. I'll definitely remember this :) Thanks for the heads-up!
- July 22, 2010 at 4:33 PM
- Crystal Cook said...
I think this sounds perfect for me! Thanks for letting us know about it :)
- July 22, 2010 at 4:38 PM
- Lisa_Gibson said...
I'll for sure consider it and can maybe get my YA novel done by then. Thanks. :)
- July 22, 2010 at 5:01 PM
Wow. If only I were writing a teen novel.
In fact, YA is so hugely popular, I just may!!!!!
- July 22, 2010 at 5:50 PM
- Denise Covey said...
I may just attempt this one Aubrie. Thanks for offering to read a chapter. Very generous of you. Thanks for info..:)
- July 22, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- Sheila Deeth said...
I need to polish my YA novel, and work on continuing the series, but this sounds interesting. Thanks for letting me know.
- July 22, 2010 at 6:22 PM
- Conda Douglas said...
I'm "shopping" my YA fantasy to agents right now, but if I reach a certain number without success, I'm going for the small publishers/contests next. Thanks for posting and I may be sending my first chapter to you ;)
- July 22, 2010 at 7:38 PM
- Unknown said...
I may enter for the second installment of my Angela series. Thank you for letting us know. Please visit my web site.
- July 22, 2010 at 8:52 PM
- Nicole said...
Okay so I can't enter this cause mines not YA... but Aubrie I'm waiting to see your story!! Don't leave me hanging ;p
- July 22, 2010 at 11:47 PM
- Clara said...
What great news! I hope my project is done by then, thank for sharing Aubrie!
- July 23, 2010 at 3:56 AM
- Creepy Query Girl said...
Oh, Thank you for this heads up. I'm definitely interested but i'll need to check out the fees first! Thanks!
- July 23, 2010 at 5:07 AM
- Susan Fields said...
Thanks for the information! And thanks for the offer to read a chapter - that's awesome! :)
- July 23, 2010 at 8:20 AM
- Cherie Reich said...
I might. It depends on if I finish editing/rewriting my manuscript in time and how any agents react to the novel.
- July 23, 2010 at 8:54 AM
- WritingNut said...
Ooh, sounds interesting! I'll definitely keep this one in mind - thanks for letting us know!
- July 23, 2010 at 10:43 AM
- Matthew MacNish said...
I see your comments on so many of the blogs I follow I figured it was time to come over here and become your newest follower.
Nice ta meet ya!
- July 23, 2010 at 11:05 AM
- Lydia Kang said...
Thanks Aubrie for sharing! You're awesome!
- July 23, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- Talli Roland said...
Thanks for the heads-up Aubrie. How nice of you to offer to help out!
Have a great weekend.
- July 23, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Unknown said...
Thanks for letting us know. I might consider it, depending on a number of factors. :D
- July 23, 2010 at 6:24 PM
I am presenting you with the Versatile Blogger Award. Please visit my blog for your award. Thank you for sharing your inspirations and journeys with me through your blog.
- July 23, 2010 at 6:55 PM
- Unknown said...
Hey Aubrie - What a sweetie you are offering to read first chapters. You're likely going to be a very, very busy girl. =D
- July 23, 2010 at 8:02 PM
- Sandra Cox said...
Love your new blog look!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- July 23, 2010 at 9:51 PM
- Nighfala said...
Perhaps. I need to know more about Wyvern first.
How much is ten pounds in US dollars? About $15 or so? That's not bad for a reading fee, really.
- July 24, 2010 at 8:22 AM
- Theresa Milstein said...
I'm just about to read The Voices of Ire!
Should I submit Aura?
- July 24, 2010 at 5:34 PM
- Margo Berendsen said...
Sweet! I was planning on starting a YA novel for NaNo this year. And you are awesome for offering to help! Only problem is, what if everybody asks you to read their first chapter in between Dec 1 and Dec 12? you are one brave soul!
Love the new background, especially since Paranormal Point of View recently profiled me as a gnome! I may try to sneak a subtle gnome into my background, too!
- July 26, 2010 at 11:19 AM


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Skoda Superb Outdoor Estate revealed
* Skoda reveals Superb Estate Outdoor * Rugged looks, available only as a 4x4 * Prices start at 26,465...
This is the Skoda Superb Outdoor, a rival for cars such as the Audi A4 Allroad and Volkswagen Passat Alltrack.
The Superb Outdoor comes with a choice of three engines, and is available only in estate form with four-wheel drive.
It is based on SE trim, but adds a leather-trimmed steering wheel, 18-inch alloy wheels, Bluetooth connectivity, tinted glass, heated windscreen washer nozzles and front headlight washers. The SE trim comes with air conditioning, chrome roof rails, cruise control, Alcantara upholstery and auto folding mirrors.
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This simple collection of white, grey and bright green from Month of Sundays is really kind of perfect. The shapes are so feminine but not girly and how much do you love those ruched green leggings?
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Some interesting lines to these outfits! I like them because they're a little bit quirky! The green is spectacular.ReplyDelete
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They will have soon a webshop too :)) They have their studio next to mee and I have to say those clothes look even better in real life. And made by just nicest girl´s I know:)
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I-Pigs get opener
The IronPigs doubled up the Bisons on Friday 12-6 to win the series opener. Buffalo matched a season high 16 hits in the loss with Argenis Reyes and Andy Green collecting three hits apiece. Four others had a mulit hit game.
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Second Report of the UNCTAD Secretary-General's Panel of Eminent Persons, entitled "Addressing Key Economic Issues to Advance Sustainable Development: Ideas for Actions", will be introduced by the Chair of the Panel, Her Excellency Ms. Tarja Halonen, former President of Finland, and the co-Chair, Professor Jagdish Bhagwati from Columbia University, United States of America.
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After the Eminent Persons' introduction, Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD, will share his reflections on the Report, in a document entitled "UNCTAD Today and Tomorrow".
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The Panel was asked by the Secretary-General to advise him, in the personal capacity of its members, on the key and emerging economic development challenges of today, and provide concrete ideas for international initiatives on how to deal with them, and how to strategically position UNCTAD in this context.
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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
On the heels of heavy backlash following Marissa Mayer discontinuing the telecommuting option enjoyed by many Yahoo! employees, this week "Piers Morgan Tonight" invited two women professionals to share their reaction and insight on the CEO's recent announcement.
As profiled in an "Only in America" segment in July, the 37-year-old Mayer took the top job at the tech giant and announced her pregnancy on the same day. With a baby boy born in late September, Meyer briefly worked from home, but has since returned to corporate headquarters.
According the Kara Swisher – the co-executive editor of All Things D who broke the story of the internal memo – in announcing her new policy this week the young executive has drawn the ire of many, despite having practical reasons:
"The concept of what she's saying is true: you want to be at the workplace to create collaboration and innovation. And Yahoo!'s been lagging for years," explains Swisher, who knew of the policy even before Yahoo!'s own staff. "The way she did it? It's a very hot-button issue. I think was a little bit – maybe inexperienced CEO – or a little too abrupt for people."
Serving to only add more fuel to the public fire, Mayer has built a private nursery adjacent to her office, where she and her personal nanny can easily care for her child.
"That bothered a lot of the people who suddenly had to now come to work, and not be involved in this 'work-from-home' thing," she tells Morgan. "One of the workers said I'm going to bring my baby-sitter and kids and put them in the cubicle next to me."
While admitting that the personal childcare environment Mayer created for herself could be interpreted as being hypocritical, Erica Bethe Levin maintains the value in face to face interaction:
"I am a proponent, I enjoy the collaborative work space, I like going into the office, I make my employees come to the office," says the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of CheekyChicago, an online lifestyle magazine. "I do believe that the community of a work space fosters creativity and ideas. I read that she [Mayer] said that some of the best ideas come from a lunchroom conversation or a water-cooler talk, and I somehow agree with that. I also think that sometimes when you're emotionally - when you're physically removed from your co-workers or from your team, you feel an emotional disconnect as well."
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With all the talk about the budget cuts,and the thought of sending our money oversea to help rebuild the country that we are losing our men and women in war. What is the body count of the ones we have already lost?
The gun control all the bull that the media is building up.
The money the politicians spend,for their own personnel use.
Taxes !!!!!!
food prices are not going down
Something the media has not talked about lately. THE cost that we have to pay for a prisoner up keep that are in for life the jail are over run.Why not cut that cost,they live better than our Vet. and our seniors We need to go back to old school. I think lethal injections should come back.If they are in for Life then why are they living.
I am watching you now and you do not put up with junk. You do keep the people informed about all issues .
Thank you for talking out for us.
Wait a minute... she can't even leave her nanny at home to care for her child? This woman has MAJOR trust issues!!
Erica Bethe Levin stated: "I also think that sometimes when you're emotionally – when you're physically removed from your co-workers or from your team, you feel an emotional disconnect as well."
Really, Erica? When I work remotely, I'm working on technical issues. If I was doing collaborative work (project planning, requirements planning, etc.), the teams I worked with were in other cities or countries. My "emotions", thankfully have nothing to do with the issue at hand. God. This is why we STILL don't get taken seriously often enough in the science and technology sector.
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Well, here we are, knee deep in summer! Isn't it wonderful? Like the fireflies that we caught as children, we can release our happy summertime memories and let them light up our days. Running through the sprinkler, chasing the ice cream truck, or just hanging out with friends, summer was always an enchanting time. It's great to celebrate the big events in our lives, but sometimes it's fun just to appreciate the magic of ordinary moments.
What little things make your day now? Enjoying summer pleasures with your children or grandchildren? Baking a cake that turns out just right? Discovering that the bunnies didn't eat your petunias? Finding your lost glasses on your head? Hearing from an old friend?
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The discovery may change the way we imagine and depict dinosaurs (Source: Andrew Howe/iStockphoto)
Jennifer Viegas
Dinosaurs were often hefty, but not as plump as previously thought, a finding that could forever change museum exhibits, book illustrations, and other recreations of these now-extinct speciesA new study, which appears in the latest issue of Royal Society Biology Letters, describes a new technique used to measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
"This is a huge help for any sort of reconstruction," says lead author William Sellers. "We now have a number that suggests how much flesh to add to the bones and that should help people produce animals that are the right balance of too fat or too thin."
"This technique can also allow you to calculate the numbers you need for more sophisticated locomotor reconstructions, such as the running simulations we have produced in the past," says Sellers, who is based at the University of Manchester's Faculty of Life Sciences.
He and his team used lasers to measure the minimum amount of skin required to wrap around the skeletons of large modern animals that included reindeer, polar bears, giraffes and elephants. Doing this, the researchers noticed that the animals had almost exactly 21 per cent more body mass than the minimum skeletal "skin and bone" wrap volume.
The formula was then applied to a giant Brachiosaur skeleton housed at Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde. Previous estimates of this dinosaur's weight have been as high as 80 tonne. This latest study, however, reduces the figure to just 23 tonnes - impressively weighty, but not nearly as heavy.
Improved measuring techniques"The 23 tonne weight is quite low, but I think it reflects the fact that all dinosaur weights are getting lower," says Sellers, explaining that the estimated weight for this dino, along with other species, has been dropping since about the early 1960's.
He says that the new estimate "reflects a better understanding of biology, and I think the early estimates were set in that big, fat and slow lizard mindset before the dinosaur renaissance. I think we will find that the lower estimates are much more appropriate for many dinosaurs."
High-tech scanners, fast computers and other tools were simply not available back in the day when dinosaur weights were first estimated. Up until fairly recently, even experts resorted to some fairly homespun methods for attempting to calculate dinosaur heft.
"One very common method is to take an artist's reconstruction sculpture of the animal and measure its volume by dipping it in water just like Archimedes," says Sellers. "That gives you the volumes, which you can multiply by the density to get its weight."
"The problem with this is the artist's reconstruction," he says. "These are very time consuming to do and probably rather inaccurate, so we thought we'd try a new method."
LimitationsAside from improved accuracy, the new method is minimally invasive and relatively quick. The primary limitation, for now, is that the specimen should consist of a complete skeleton that has been mounted.
"This is reasonably accurate because the bones fit together like a jigsaw puzzle," he says.
Heinrich Mallison of the Museum für Naturkunde says the new study describes "a brilliant approach: not trying to estimate soft tissues, but finding out how much a bone-only model underestimates the entire animal's mass."
Mallison thinks it is "certainly a very good method for mammals, but I'd like to see tests with more details to find out if archosaurs (crocodiles and dinosaurs) have the same regressions, or differ."


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In the first article of this series, Understanding Client-Side Storage in Web Apps, I reviewed the HTML5 storage options and concluded that the localStorage API is the most viable option. Now, in this second and final part of this series, I'll dive deep into that API and show ways to use it to improve your websites.
The localStorage API is very simple it's basically an associative array (hash map) with wrapper methods to set and get items, iterate through all the stored items, and throw exceptions that notify the developer when something goes wrong, such as going over quota.
The table below shows the methods and attributes, based on the official WebStorage specification.
|String key, String value
|String key
|String value
|String key
|int index
|String key
|int length
The API is subject to the "same origin" policy, with which most developers are familiar thanks to
XMLHttpRequest. That policy dictates which websites can see what data based on matching the subdomains and ports of a URL.
For example, given the URL "http://store.company.com/dir/page.html," here's a summary of who could view locally stored data:
|No (Different protocol)
|No (Different port)
|No (Different host)
From a security standpoint, this means that you need to be careful not to use localStorage on a shared domain (because every page on that domain will have access to the data), and to be aware of security exploits like DNS spoofing. You should also know that your locally stored data will not be shared across subdomains unless you do a bit of magic with document.domain. You can read more about the same-origin policy on Mozilla's Developer Network.
Abstraction Libraries
The localStorage API is quite easy to use, and you could use it directly via the API. But, as with many JavaScript Web APIs, there are several reasons why you might want to use a localStorage abstraction library; and there are an increasing number of libraries available.
Most of them include a feature-detection check to see whether the browser actually supports the API and whether it's currently enabled (as browsers let users disable it, just like with cookies). In the case that the feature check fails, some libraries fallback to using other techniques (such as cookies or browser-specific hacks). Most libraries handle serialization of objects using JSON, and some libraries are designed for specific use cases. Let's take a look at a few of them.
store.js is probably the most popular localStorage library, and it's also a great example of what to expect from a library. After it checks for browser support, it uses fallbacks to globalStorage for older Firefox versions and userData for older IE versions two browser-specific client-side storage APIs that never made it into the standards world.
In the example code below, we store an object representing a song in localStorage (which is then serialized by store.js), retrieve and display it, and then remove it.
store.set('song', {artist: 'Roxette', title: 'Listen to your heart'}) var song = store.get('song'); document.getElementById('song').innerHTML = song.artist + ' sings "' + song.title + '"'; store.remove('song');
Another popular wrapper library is Lawnchair. It's similar in capabilities but its get/set methods are all asynchronous, so that it can be used with both synchronous and asynchronous APIs. It features "adapters," which let you use it with various client-side storage options, including older options such as userData but also uber modern options like IndexedDB. It also includes a plugin API and plugins for common tasks like aggregation, pagination, and queries.
In the example code below, we store an object representing a band, and then we retrieve and display it inside a callback function. When Lawnchair is used with localStorage, the callback is called pretty much instantly, since it's a synchronous API. If you used Lawnchair with something like IndexedDB, it may actually take a few seconds before the callback is called.
var bands = Lawnchair(function() { this.save({key:'abba', name: 'ABBA', hometown: 'Stockholm'}); this.get('abba', function(band) { document.getElementById('band').innerHTML = band.name + ' is from ' + band.hometown; }); });
The lscache library is written with a particular use case in mind in this case, expiration. The library lets you set expiration times when storing items in localStorage, so that you can kick items out after a particular amount of time. Its API mimics the memcache API, a popular server-side caching API, and its use cases are similar. Later, I'll explore when you would actually want to use localStorage in this way.
In the example code below, I store an array of objects representing songs (such as we might retrieve from an API), set those songs to expire in 24 hours, and display them on the page.
Full disclosure: This is the library I wrote, and is the one I use most frequently in my web apps. It's certainly not the best API for every use case, however, especially because it does not yet include a fallback for older browsers.
var songs = [{artist: 'Ansiktet', title: 'Ackligt'}, {artist: 'Norlie & Kkv', title: 'Trojan Du Hatar'}, {artist: 'Michel Telo', title: 'Ai Se Que Te Pego'}, {artist: 'Avicii', title: 'Levels'}, {artist: 'Flo Rida & Sia', title: 'Wild Ones'}, {artist: 'Moa Lignell', title: 'When I Held Ya'}, {artist: 'David Guetta & Sia', title: 'Titanium'}, {artist: 'Timbuktu', title: 'Flickan '}, {artist: 'Rihanna & Calvin Harris', title: 'We Found Love'}, {artist: 'Takida', title: 'You Learn'}]; lscache.set('swedentop10', songs, 60*24); songs = lscache.get('swedentop10'); for (var i = 0; i < songs.length; i++) { var song = songs[i]; document.getElementById('songs').innerHTML += song.artist + ': ' + song.title; }
What can we use localStorage for?
We can use localStorage for some of the things we used to use cookies for. We can also use it for a wider range of uses cases to help us improve the user experience for our websites which is presumably what we're all striving for. With it, we can remember user data, retain application state, remember form input, improve performance, and help the app work offline.
Remembering User Data
One reason to use localStorage is to remember user data. While we still want to remember most user data on the server, there are some cases where you might want to store data on the client instead:
- If you want to build an app without a server (maybe for prototyping),
- If you want to give users a customized experience before forcing them to create an account, or
- If you're building an app that inherently lives only in a client (like browser extensions or mobile apps).
Example: dillinger.io
dillinger.io is a Markdown editor that uses localStorage to remember user preferences and the most recently typed text, so that you can use it without ever signing in. It gives users the option to sign in with Github, and ideally it would migrate the user data from the client to the server once you signed in, so that it would follow you across platforms.
Here's an example of what they store in localStorage:
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Note that in this and the following examples, the key values are often truncated for readability. To see everything they store, visit the site themselves and inspect their localStorage using the resources panel in Chrome Developer Tools.


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During the 1920s Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) symbolised everything that was progressive in German music. He explored the potential of radio, electronic music and jazz, and he was feted at the Donaueschingen Festival.
Hindemith never lost sight of the human aspect in music and refused to accept a divide between composers, performers and listeners. Instead he advocated music that was practical, useful and playable. He was himself a brilliant violinist and violist.
At the age of only 20, Hindemith was appointed concertmaster (1st violinist) at Frankfurt Opera House. From 1923 to 1927 he lived in and wrote amongst others his opera Cardillac in the Kuhhirtenturm in Frankfurt. This tower opened to the public as a Hindemith museum in 2011. The Hindemith Institute is based in Frankfurt too. In 1927 Hindemith accepted a professor's post in Berlin. He lived at Brixplatz, where there is now a memorial plaque.
The Nazis condemned Hindemith's music as degenerate art and banned it from being performed or broadcast. In 1938 he and his wife emigrated via Switzerland to the USA, where his late symphonic works were composed. Hindemith taught at Yale University in New Haven until 1953. He spent his last years in Switzerland.
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Seasoned Fan Potatoes
For a festive presentation, Tressa Surdick slices into the tops of baking potatoes to "fan" them, then seasons them with herbs and butter. "Guests rave about these potatoes," she writes from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
Total TimePrep: 10 min. Bake: 1 hour
Makes2 servings
- 2 medium baking potatoes
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons finely shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
- With a sharp knife, slice potatoes thinly but not all the way through, leaving slices attached at the bottom. Fan potatoes slightly.
- Place in an ungreased 8-in. square baking dish. Sprinkle with Italian seasoning and salt. Drizzle with butter. Bake, uncovered, at 425° for 50 minutes. Sprinkle with cheeses and parsley; bake 10-15 minutes longer or until lightly browned.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 227 calories, 5g fat (4g saturated fat), 17mg cholesterol, 731mg sodium, 39g carbohydrate (4g sugars, 4g fiber), 8g protein.
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This makes a nice presentation. I wouldn't use the salt, or at least as much of it. Between the Italian seasonings and the cheeses, the salt is not needed for someone trying to cut back on it. I will make these again because they do have very good flavor.
Aug 17, 2010
These potatoes make a very nice presentation. My husband and I try to find ways to cut back on salt, so the next time I make them I will eliminate the salt, or at least cut back on it. Between the Italian seasonings and the cheeses salt is really not needed.


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Tim Lee, owner of Don Lee Auto, in Rancho Cucamonga, California, has owned a lot of cars. Everything from a Corvair to a 1955 Chevy has populated his garage at one point or another. And while he's owned more than few Camaros, up until now none have been first-gens. Given this unacceptable oversight, he jumped at the chance to pick up a sweet, unfinished project car. The 1967 had been languishing at a shop after having a ton of work done. It was in primer with all the major body massaging done. A TCI suspension had been grafted under the Camaro and there was an LS1 sitting on the subframe. Other than that it was mostly blown apart and in boxes. Given its unassembled status, Tim got it for a song, and in short order he put together a plan: a fun-to-drive street machine combining classic looks and modern performance. The LS1 was moved to another project and in its place Tim built a 416ci LS3 stroker. Filled with forged Eagle rods pinned to Mahle PowerPak flat-top pistons, a forged Eagle crank, and a complete COMP roller valvetrain, it's an engine built to be run hard. The short-block was topped with RHS heads, and a Holley 850 Ultra HP carb was mated to an Edelbrock Super Victor LS single-plane intake. An MSD 6LS ignition system triggers the Granatelli Motorsports coil packs, while Holley valve covers neatens things up.
The combo was good enough to knock down 617 hp and 566 lb-ft of torque on the engine dyno. Backing up the engine is a worked-over Tremec T-56, which spins power back to the Currie-filled Ford 9-inch differential. Wilwood binders ride inside the 18x9 and 18x10 EVOD polished rollers wrapped in BFG KDW rubber.
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President Trump is hitting back at former Vice President Joe Biden. At the White House, Trump said Biden is "not playing with a full deck."
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Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets believes optimism regarding China and Europe is unwarranted.
Via email, he states the case while giving nine key things to watch in 2013.
The subtitles below are mine, the rest from Pettis.
Too Early to be Enthusiastic About China
I wanted to send out this newsletter last week, but the air in Beijing has been so foul that it has been hard to generate the necessary enthusiasm to write it. Over the weekend I was finally able to finish it, perhaps because I have finally gotten used to breathing solid chunks of grit.
Away from the horrible air pollution the year seems to have begun with an optimism that I think is going to prove hard to justify.
Many countries before China have managed one or more decades of miraculous growth, and in every case, perhaps not surprisingly, they developed significant domestic imbalances that were only subsequently resolved during difficult adjustment periods.
Very few, however, have managed the subsequent adjustment process in such a way that their early economic promises were fulfilled. Beijing must now manage China's own adjustment, and this adjustment must come soon if we are not to run into a serious debt problem. How Beijing does so is key to China's longer-term economic success, and it is much too early in the process to get overly enthusiastic. Certainly last year gives a taste of what we might expect.
The next year or two are also going to be very important in determining the success of the great European experiment and, even more, the viability of the euro as it currently exists. At this point, unless the peripheral countries unite in their demands and force changes in growth policies, the future of the euro lies largely in German hands. If Germany decides to save the euro by expanding its economy sufficiently to allow the peripheral European countries to grow while cutting their debt levels, the euro can be saved. If not, I don't really see how peripheral Europe can manage many more years of grinding away at debt through high unemployment (which anyway doesn't seem to improve debt ratios).
Burst of Optimism for Europe
We ended 2012 in a burst of optimism for Europe, with everyone cheering Mario Draghi for having "saved" the euro, but I am deeply skeptical. As far as I can tell nothing substantial has changed, and if countries like Spain are a little more able today to roll over their debts than they had been during the summer, so what?
If Europe were merely suffering from a liquidity problem (or a problem of "confidence", as politicians and bankers always like to say before the big debt crisis), then the ECB's willingness to fund all this debt would be a step in the right direction. But if the problem is too much debt, too high unemployment, and misaligned currencies, then rolling over the debt means that the ultimate resolution will be more painful simply because there will ultimately be more debt to write down.
It is interesting that policymakers are so pleased by an end (temporarily, I assume) to the financing crisis. One of the regular features of sovereign debt crises, and one amply revealed in Beth Simmons book on the 1930s crisis in Europe, Who Adjusts?, is that one of the complicating factors in a crisis is the tendency of policymakers (along with workers, creditors, small businesses, and middle class savers) to change their behavior in response to a crisis by taking steps that protect them from the consequences of the crisis but that also make the crisis worse. Policymakers do this by shortening their time horizons and managing from crisis to crisis, rather than by sorting out the underlying problems. The fact that Spanish policymakers are so relieved by their ability to access near-term financing may be a case in point. It is easy to see why the worry so much about getting through the next bond auction, but at the end of the day this is not Spain's real problem.
Spain's real problem is unemployment and negative growth.
Under the circumstances there is very little popular appetite left in Spain, I think, for much more pain. When locksmiths in Pamplona got together a few weeks ago and decided that they were not going to help banks bust open locks and repossess homes, even though this must have become a major source of income for them, it suggests that ordinary Spaniards aren't eager to absorb much more damage and that solidarity is spreading. It also suggests that any political party that decides to take drastic action to grow the economy, even (and perhaps especially) at the expense of monetary union and its European partners (i.e. Germany), is likely to get at least some significant fraction of the votes.
One way or the other, the world will rebalance. But there are worse ways and better ways it can do so. Large trade surpluses can decline, for example, because exports fall, or they can decline because imports rise. Large trade deficits can contract under conditions of high unemployment, but they can also contract under conditions of low unemployment. Low savings rates can rise with declining household income or with rising household income. Repressed consumption rates can reverse through collapsing growth or through surging consumption. Excessive debt can be resolved by default or by growth.
Any policy that does not clearly result in a reversal of the deep debt, trade and capital imbalances of the past decade is a policy that cannot be sustained. The goal of policymakers must be to work out what rebalancing requires and then to design and implement the least painful way of getting there. International cooperation, of course, will reduce the pain.
Nine Things to Watch in 2013
My guess is that we have ended the first stage of the global crisis, and most of the deepest problems have been identified. In 2013 we will begin to see how policymakers respond and what the future outlook is likely to be. Here is what I will be watching this year in order to figure out where we are likely to end up (and I have a related article, for those who might care, in last week's Financial Times – Hello 2013: Chinese banking and economic reform).
1. Watch how quickly growth adjusts. The speed with which China's GDP growth slows in 2013 will tell us a lot about how determined Beijing is to rebalance the economy in such a way that growth is driven more by higher household income and consumption and less by investment funded by rising government and government-related debt. It will also tell us how successful Beijing's new leadership will be in consolidating power and forcing the kinds of economic and financial reforms on which most economists now agree, but which are likely to be politically difficult.
I expect GDP growth in the first half to be fairly high, probably close to 8%, continuing the investment boom that was recently unleashed. I am not fully confident of this number because there seem to be significant strains in the banking system, and without easy credit growth there cannot be much investment growth. Of course part of any credit tightness will be "resolved" by the tried-and-true method of vendor financing, which is already becoming a problem for SOE balance sheets.
As an aside, one of my former students, now an investment banker working on the domestic IPO market, came to visit me today and warned me that there is a huge backlog of companies trying to get approval to sell shares. One of the requirements is that they must have two consecutive years of rising net earnings. Many of these firms expected to come to market in 2012 and were able to manage the needed two years of rising net earnings to 2011, but now that they have been pushed back, at least to 2013, they are struggling to show that net earnings in 2012 also went up. For that reason his firm is especially wary of sneaky attempts to boost reported earnings. There are hundreds of companies waiting for approval.
At any rate it is second half GDP growth that interests me more. If Beijing has really gotten its arms around the rebalancing problem and is serious about adjusting quickly, I expect reported growth to drop sharply, perhaps to close to 6%. If not, I expect reported growth to remain well above 7% in the second half of 2013. This would worry me.
2. Watch how quickly new debt emerges. Debt problems are going to continue to emerge in 2013, but as long as each new manifestation of excessively rising debt is treated as a specific and localized problem that can be resolved with specific polices, overall balance sheets will continue to get worse. We need to watch what Beijing does to rein in the growth in debt, and of course this is closely related to overall GDP growth. As long as GDP is growing at levels above 6% or 7%, it is almost a certainty that debt is rising too fast. If GDP growth levels come in much below 6 or 7%, there is a chance that debt growth is not excessive.
How do we keep track of debt levels? Obviously this is no easy task in China, where both the banks and the informal banking system have done a great job in recent years of hiding loan growth and keeping formal debt levels from looking to risky.
But follow the cash. Large increases in infrastructure investment and in real estate development are almost always funded, directly or indirectly, by increases in debt.
3. Watch for financial scandals. We should also be keeping track of stories about defaults and bank runs. Remember that the Chinese financial system does not really "do" defaults. When borrowers are unable to repay debt out of operating cashflow, the problem is usually "managed" away by forcing losses onto some other entity.
The late stages of a debt bubble are almost always characterized by the sudden emergence of financial fraud, and the huge extent of the frauds lead many to assume that fraud was the source of the credit problems, when in fact widespread financial fraud is more typically a symptom of a financial system that has already gone to excess. This is why I am going to be following financial scandals closely, no matter how arcane or small. The occurrence and pattern of financial scandal will tell us a lot about the likely problem areas in the financial system.
3. Watch bank activities. More generally I am going to watch the relationship between total credit growth and the growth in RMB loans. Much of the off-balance sheet financing in China is designed specifically to skirt regulations, and the relative size of these transactions will tell us about transparency (or lack thereof).
4. Watch inflation. Inflation is actually a positive indicator for China's rebalancing, and also worth watching because I expect (hope) it to rise in 2013, although not by too much. This may sound like a strange thing to say – everyone else thinks of rising inflation as a bad thing – but remember that the more you repress household income growth, the more you divert resources, especially through cheap financing, from consumption into production, and so this tends to be disinflationary.
If China is truly rebalancing, at least part of this is going to show up in upward inflationary pressure, although it is likely to be the "right" kind of inflation – i.e. it will hurt the rich more than the poor because it will be based on non-food rather than food items. Perhaps this inflation is already starting to happen, although not in the way I would like it to happen. There has been an uptick in inflation but it seems to have been caused by the impact of cold weather on food prices, rather than because consumption of manufactured goods is rising faster than production.
5. Watch the prices of hard commodities. Of course I will be watching copper prices and prices of other hard commodities. I expect that hard commodity prices will fall sharply over the next two to three years, but to the extent that prices rise in the short term, as they have in the past three months, it is likely to reflect additional investment growth in China.
As a quick measure this means that declining copper prices can be seen as a measure of the extent of Chinese rebalancing. The longer it takes for copper prices to drop, the slower is the Chinese adjustment likely to be.
6. Watch the trade numbers. China's trade surplus for November came in much higher than expected, although there are so many discrepancies in the numbers that not all of us are confident about how to interpret the numbers. It seems like growth in both imports and exports may have been exaggerated, as local authorities may be round-tripping both exports and imports in order to make their numbers look good.
In addition, as I have argued many times, China's exports are likely to be misleadingly low and its imports misleadingly high (and so its real trade surplus higher than the official trade surplus) to the extent that there is significant commodity stockpiling and hidden capital flight. Of course destocking and capital inflows will have the opposite effect.
7. Watch the Spanish bond market. Obviously I, like everyone else, will be watching the Spanish bond markets.
I do not think anything important has changed as far as the European crisis is concerned. The fact that there is a additional liquidity for bond purchases does not mean, as I see it, that Spanish competitiveness has been resolved and it does not mean that the economy can grow out of its debt burden. It simply means that there is temporarily a little less pressure to resolve the underlying problems. I would guess that by the second quarter of 2013, and likely earlier, markets will once again have gotten much worse.
8. Watch Target 2. On a related topic, I will continue to watch Target 2 closely as an indicator of strains within the European banking system. This too ended 2013 on a positive note.
For the same reason that I am not optimistic about the Spanish bond market I am also not optimistic that Target 2 will continue to reverse. If it does, of course, that will be a great sigh, but if it doesn't, and if in fact the imbalances continue to grow, that will put additional stress on Germany's ability to maintain the euro system.
9. Watch Japan. Remember that Japanese attempts to get their arms around their huge debt burden will almost certainly affect China and the rest of the global economy. If Japan tries to increase domestic savings to fund the debt, for example by limiting wage increases, or by taxing consumption, both of which they have proposed, these measures may well cause domestic investment to fall. Whether or not they do, if domestic savings rise faster than domestic investment, which is the only way to increase the domestic savings pool available to fund Japanese debt, then by definition the current account surplus must rise.
I am not smart enough to tell you what Japan will do, but I do know that almost anything it does must affect the relationship between its savings and its investment, and hence Japan's current account surplus, which I suspect everyone hopes will rise. Of course everyone else wants the same thing too – rising exports relative to imports – which is clearly impossible, but Japan needs it more urgently than most of the rest of us. This is going to increase strains on the global trading system.
Financial Scandals
Pettis used point number three twice, I am not sure if on purpose. Both threes are financial. In general, and as is typically the case, I side with Pettis' point of view.
One of the more interesting things on his watch list was "3. Watch For Financial Scandals".
I have been following scandals in Spain that may bring down the Spanish government. Media attention in English has been scant. Here are a pair of significant articles:
January 19: Massive Fraud in Spain Threatens Entire Government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy
January 20: Crisis in Madrid Update; Plan "A" is Sgt. Schultz Defense, No Plan "B" Yet
In Greece, Law-and-Order Problem Escalates; Bomb Explodes at Athens Mall; AK-47 Shots Hit Ruling Party Headquarters prompting me to say "Worst Not Over"
Complacency reins in European bond markets, even though Spanish and Greek unemployment is over 26% and youth unemployment is over 56% in both countries and both countries have recent fraud investigations at the highest levels.
How much longer this can go on before the powder keg blows remains a mystery.
The Great Rebalancing
Michael Pettis has just released his book "The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead"
I will get a copy soon. Note that Pettis is one of the speakers at my economic conference in April. Please click on the image below for details.
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The other day I felt extremely anxious (almost panicked) about my skin. I had just stopped taking cyclosporine, my rock-solid psoriasis suppressor for five years. I obsessed about when (not if) my psoriasis would break out. In addition, the huge abscess that had developed on my leg had become quite inflamed and sensitive. Three days of antibiotic use seemed to be useless on the abscess and other infections breaking out on my skin. Had I overused the antibiotic to the point that it was no longer effective? A recent test showed that I've already lost one antibiotic to treat staph infections through overuse. That day I didn't feel like I could function well due to the emotional drama I was experiencing with my skin.
Fear, anxiety, frustration, exasperation, anger, resignation, embarrassment, anticipation, hope—what psoriatic hasn't experienced the full gamut of emotions? And yet, because psoriasis is a chronic condition for many of us (my last remission was seven years ago and lasted about three weeks), it's easy to tire of all those emotions. Besides, I figure my loved ones will one day grow weary themselves of the chronic nature of my emotions. I really wonder if they will just get fed up with me before too long.
We've probably heard that emotional health pays a key role in how well we can manage the disease, and perhaps is even a player in its severity. If that's true then it only makes sense that psoriatics should learn to express their emotions in a healthy way. Wallowing in anger and depression for weeks doesn't get me too far (I've been there before), but expressing frustration in an ineffective treatment or exasperation in the daily routine may prove a good release.
I can be my own worst enemy. Sometimes, I catch myself thinking that I shouldn't feel what I'm feeling. For example, when I feel exasperated I tell myself that at least psoriasis isn't fatal like cancer. Or, when I am anxious, I think that stress might cause more psoriasis so I shouldn't feel anxious. The fact is, I can't control when I feel exasperated or anxious—I can only deal with it once I feel it. And not acknowledging those emotions is a poor response. I only end up feeling worse when I try to ignore those feelings. Now I'm trying to monitor how I talk to myself so I don't exacerbate an already difficult situation.
I am not a counselor or therapist, so I would refer you to one if you are overwhelmed with your emotional health. If you are religious or spiritual, you may want to talk to or pray with members of your church. I have a pastor I talk to about my struggles, as well as a few good friends. Of course my wife walks through the ups and downs with me as well. That emotional support goes a long way in facing what is not only a physical disease, but also one with a huge psychological impact.
I'm glad we have this online community as a forum to connect, share ideas, and support each other. I am most touched by the comments that express how readers don't feel alone, but feel connected to other psoriatics and me. I felt the same way before I started writing and have benefitted immensely myself.
So, how are you doing with your psoriasis? How do you manage the emotions that come with living with psoriasis?
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Fenway visit a litmus test for depleted Rangers
Manager Washington keeping young pitchers calm as they step up on stage
Ron Washington said whenever he takes his Texas Rangers into Fenway Park: "I get butterflies. Yes, they're butterflies, but as long as they don't turn into moths, we'll be fine."
The Rangers visit the iconic Boston venue for three games this week, the second half of a draining six-game trip that included a tough weekend against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field.
It's no wonder Washington has butterflies, because his pitching staff is so depleted with injuries he's sending three youngsters -- Tanner Scheppers, Martin Perez and Robbie Ross Jr -- against the defending World Series champions.
Even though it's only April, the lone trip to Boston this season for the Rangers -- as banged up as they are -- should tell how well they stack up against the Red Sox.
With starters Matt Harrison and Derek Holland on the disabled list, Washington has had to summon relievers from his bullpen to start in this demanding series.
"I just hope we can pitch, get some hits, put some runs on the board and win some ballgames," he said.
The patched-up Rangers lineup rallied to win two of three games from the Phillies last week as the season opened at Globe Life Park, then fell Friday and Saturday nights against the Rays.
But on Sunday, with ace Yu Darvish returning from the DL and not looking a bit rusty from a three-week layoff, the Rangers shut down the Rays, 3-0.
And then it was off to Boston.
Darvish was the first of the wounded to return. In addition to Harrison and Holland, second baseman Jurickson Profar and catcher Geovany Soto are on the shelf.
Joe Saunders, suffering from a bruised left ankle after being hit by an Evan Longoria line drive last Friday night, is on the disabled list, too. The Rangers will have to come up with a starter for Friday's game against Houston.
"There's no panic here," Washington said. "Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. We're going to show up with 25 guys and win some ballgames."
The thing about Washington is he's as good as they come at calming a team that's going through a tough time.
MLB.com's Rangers beat reporter T. R. Sullivan knows Washington well and said, "He remains the stabilizing voice for the Rangers. As general manager Jon Daniels refers to it, the 'tremendous winning culture' he's established continues to keep the team on-course through all this turbulence [injuries]."
So when Washington talks about butterflies and not allowing them turn into moths, he's indirectly sending a message to his young players, especially the pitchers who are being pressed into unaccustomed starting roles.
Washington is essentially saying it's OK to realize the importance of three games against the reigning champs, but don't blow one series out of proportion.
The other night at Tropicana Field, Washington summoned Nick Martinez from the Minor Leagues as an emergency starter against the Rays.
Not only was this Martinez's Major League debut, it was also in front of his family, who'd driven over from their home in South Florida.
Martinez gave the Rangers their first quality start of the season and could have won the game had the bullpen not collapsed. The Rays rallied to win, 5-4.
The next day, the 23-year-old right-hander was returned to Double-A Frisco, but to soften the blow, Washington said, "As we move forward, he's going to pitch for the Texas Rangers for a long time. Don't read too much into the fact he was sent back down [to the Minor Leagues]. We know who Nick Martinez is.
"The one thing that I was looking for was how well he controlled his emotions with his family here and all that. He did very well."
The three youngsters have never made a start at Fenway Park, and Perez has never pitched there.
"When I was young, I looked at those stadiums on television," said Perez. "To be able to pitch in Fenway Park will be great for me."
Washington doesn't believe any of them will be overcome by the importance of their starts against the Red Sox.
"We really don't know how they're going to react until they get out there, but it's not their first time facing the Boston Red Sox," he said. "They've all come in during tough relief situations against them. I just hope they're able to execute their pitches as they did in relief."
Washington said it's all about "pitchability."
For Washington and the Rangers, it's what the young starters must have to keep the butterflies from turning into moths at Fenway Park.


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He is currently a Hunter College student majoring in photography and creative writing, but always knew that capturing life with a camera was his heart and soul in the art world. Zinonos is self-taught and takes that to heart, believing that true talent cannot be taught in art schools like people would have you believe.
"To me art is personal, not a bragging right like I've seen so many people claim before, especially when I was looking for a college to attend," said Zinonos.
He began capturing images with a standard point-and-shoot camera, the kind you can buy at any electronics store, and slowly began to understand the relationship between the camera and his visions.
That was during his high school years, and he saved his money to purchase a nicer camera to better capture his passion. The camera was an SLR, or single lens reflex, which allows the photographer to see exactly what the picture will look like before taking the photo.
Now he has started to shoot digitally after working through many different lenses and cameras, trying to find himself in the world of still imagery. He finds digital imagery a great tool because it gives him more control over what he captures.
"Digital has a cooler, smoother feel. There is fluidity that I like about it," he said.
He's currently working on his professional portfolio as well as a themes-oriented side project that will be unveiled on Friday, August 13. His goal is to reinvigorate the photography world with his unique sense of place in the art world. You can view his work and see his side project at www.johnzinonos.com.


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An interesting and attractive double sided 19th century reliquary pendant, possibly Spanish colonial, featuring a watercolor portrait of St. Sebastian on one side, and St. Anthony on the other. The piece is heart-shaped, surrounded by tight loops of woven wire mesh ribbon. The portraits are covered with extremely convex glass and are surrounded by pastel fabric and paper appliqué flowers, studded with gold paint. A wonderful piece in very good condition. Measures 2 3/4".


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Date: February 14, 2018
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Raven Rock Grill
Raven Rock Grill presents "Bump and Burger Night" every Wednesday throughout the winter season. Bump Blomberg will perform from 5:30-7:30 PM.
We're bringing back the original Skyport Burger for this special night only, offering all of our regular burgers in a basket with fries for $8.
Also, featuring for a limited time (a new favorite of ours), Newfoundland Fries: a generous portion of crispy fries topped with rich beef stew and green onions, $8. Just like Mom never made!
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California, Nevada, and Massachusetts all legalized marijuana for recreational use yesterday. But that's not all, "Voters in Florida, North Dakota, and Arkansas approved medical marijuana measures," according to the Associated Press.
"I'm thrilled," said Northern California marijuana grower Nikki Lastreto to AP. "I'm so excited that California can now move forward."
So if you don't like the election night results, no need to leave the country. You can simply go to Massachusetts, California, or Nevada and toke a load off.


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I'm very excited to head to London next week to speak Code Literacy for Designers at the always-excellent Future of Web Design Conference. Working at Pivotal Labs, I've learned a lot over the last few years about how Agile software development and design interact, and I'm really looking forward to engaging in the conversation in one of my favorite cities. If you'll be at FOWD, please come check it out at 11:15 on Wed! And if you're in London and want to talk UX, drop me a line!
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Do you spend half your day on mockups in Illustrator and the other half on Javascript in a text editor? Know anyone who does? The way we work is changing. Rigid, traditionally defined roles like "Designer" and "Developer" are being displaced by interdisciplinary skillsets and a culture of collective product ownership. In this talk, we'll investigate how treating Coding as Literacy can affect the way decisions are made and work gets done, describe how varying levels of literacy among teammates facilitate effective agile design and development, and discuss how designers can get literate in technical topics.
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1) Palm Trees or Palm leaves
2) Photo taken at the beach
3) 2-3 Beach Embellishments
A little bit about Ken Done
Born 29 June 1940, in Sydney, Ken left school at 14 to enter the National Art School in East Sydney. Ken Done's first solo exhibition was held in Sydney in 1980. Since then, he has held over 50 one-man shows, including major exhibitions in Australia, Europe, Japan and the USA. His work has been described as the most original style to come out of Australia, and his paintings are in collections throughout the world. Over the past few years, Ken has devoted most of his time to painting. His works have been shown in the Archibald, Sulman, Wynne, Blake, and Dobell Prizes.
And now some wonderful inspiration from our Creative Team ...
|"No Time" by MELISSA
|"Fun" by CHANTELLE
|"Beach" by SARAH
|"Our Paradise" by HELENE
|"Summertime" by DEBI
|"Sandcastles" by AMANDA
|"Flip Flop Fun" by SHAZZA
and some digital inspiration from me ...
|"A day at the beach" by JANE
We are looking forward to seeing your wonderful creations this month. Please upload the DIRECT link to your entry to the link tool on the RIGHT by midnight March 31st, 2012. We accept paper, digital, card and off the page submissions but please remember we appreciate original entries (you may combine with a sketch).
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Beaumont IT Technologist Zak Sly reports on an exciting development:
Over the past six months a group of students from Beaumont College, Lancasterhave been working with the BBC R&D (Research and Development) on a research partnership to make television more accessible for disabled people.
As part of the partnership some of the students got to opportunity to visit MediaCity in Salford, the BBCs new centre in the North. The students had a great day and thought this couldn't be topped… Well…
On Friday 9 March three students Rebecca Hall, Jodie Turner and Hannah Dilworth were asked if they could have one final session with the BBC to do some filming. They were told that the short show reel will be shown to a VIP at MediaCity on 23 March. The VIP's identity was secret at the time of the filming taking place.
The three students were filmed using a switch and a head mouse.
For those of you interested in the technical details – the switches were used to control a grid set from 'The Grid 2' on a normal laptop, which was connected to another computer (via a router) running a modified version of Mythbuntu (an open source Linux operating system with a media centre application built in). The operating system has been adapted to implement BBC R&D's Universal Control API, and the Universal Control Mythbuntu files can be downloaded from GitHub.
The switch and head mouse allow the person using them to control a communication aid, which as well as giving them a 'voice' means they can do lots of everyday activities from talking to their families to controlling their environment (lights, heating, TV) and ordering a take-a-way or booking tickets to the cinema.
A couple of days later an email came from the BBC to let us know that VIPs due to watch the show reel were Her Majesty The Queen, while Lord Patten (Chairman of the BBC Trust) and Mark Thompson (Director-General of the BBC) had seen it at a previous screening. Read more about the opening of the BBC'sMedia City and the Queen's Jubilee Tour.
The three students were all really excited about this! Rebecca Hall said "When I got the email off Zak about the Queen I was really excited." A staff member who was with her at the time said that when Rebecca read the email she screamed with excitement! Jodie Turner said she was very excited and Hannah Dilworth agreed.


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BMW is known for its well-named styling trademarks. The Hofmeister Kink. The Kidney Grill. Now BMW is sticking a little fender vent on its new cars. What name should it get?
We've seen the hockey stick/boomerang shaped vent on the BMW 3 GT and prominently on the new 4 series coupe.
Given that every styling train on BMWs get a name, from Angel Eyes up front to a Bangle Butt out back, what should we name this vent?